(1) Allocate adequate human, technical and financial resources and establish monitoring and assessment mechanisms for the implementation of the national programme on gender-based violence prevention and response, in keeping with the principles of inclusion of and accessibility for all women; (2) Address the stigma discouraging women and girls who are victims of gender-based violence from reporting it, through awareness-raising campaigns on the criminal nature of all forms of such violence and its grave impact on women's enjoyment of their rights; (3) Prevent, investigate and adequately punish politically motivated violence against women human rights defenders and activists, including when such violence is committed by members of the police and security forces and at the instigation of public officials; (4) Systematically collect data, disaggregated by age, type of violence and relationship between the victim and the perpetrator, on the number of complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions and on the sentences imposed on perpetrators of gender-based violence against women, as well as on the redress provided to victims, including financial compensation.

(1) Step up efforts to identify and protect victims of trafficking from and within the State party and refer them to appropriate services at an early stage, in collaboration with civil society organizations, and step up efforts to investigate, prosecute and adequately punish the perpetrators of trafficking-related crimes; (2) Amend the Trafficking in Persons Act to incorporate a definition of trafficking in persons that is consistent with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; (3) Ensure the availability of State shelters for victims of trafficking in all 10 provinces and increase the financial support provided to non-governmental organizations running shelters and offering support services, including legal counselling and rehabilitation services, to women and girls who are victims of trafficking.

(1) Broaden the definition of perpetrators in the Domestic Violence Act to include those who may not be related to or living in the same household as the complainant; (2) Engage with communities, including religious and community leaders, parents and relatives of girls, on the criminal nature and negative impact of child marriage on the enjoyment by girls of their rights.

(1) Adopt the bill criminalizing child marriage and prosecute and adequately punish perpetrators; (2) Adopt legislation providing for the mandatory registration of all marriages and ensure the prohibition of polygamy; (3) Ensure that customary laws and practices are in conformity with the Constitution and the Convention so as to prohibit harmful practices, and repeal any provisions that are discriminatory towards women in family relations.